e. Ancillary testing »
VOG/EOG/EYE MOVEMENT RECORDING (incl. Interpretation)

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-  -  -  To be aware that for many vestibular disorders no vestibular test is part of the diagnostic criteria
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-  -  Video-oculography and electro-oculography
-  -  -  Primary gaze and eccentric gaze with and without fixation
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-  -  -  Smooth pursuit
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-  -  -  Optokinetic nystagmus
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-  -  -  Rotatory chair:
-  -  -  -  Torsion swing (gain&phase)
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-  -  -  -  Velocity step (gain and TC)
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-  -  -  Visual suppression of VOR
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-  -  -  Positional testing
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-  -  -  Bithermal caloric testing
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-  -  VHIT
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Open Access: Yes

Link
https://novel.utah.edu/barany-society-vestibular-medicine-curriculum/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/The-Video-Head-Impulse-test-Instructional-video.mp4

Description
This video explains the principles of the video head impulse test and how to perform it (basic level)

Keywords
video head impulse test, head impulse test, catch-up saccade, overt saccade, covert saccade, horizontal canal, lateral canal, video head impulse test, vhit, hit, gain, video goggles, synapsis, interacoustics, otometrics, head thrust

Reviewer
Raymond van de Berg

Topics

Open Access: Yes


Mantokoudis, G., Tehrani, A. S. S., Kattah, J. C., Eibenberger, K., Guede, C. I., Zee, D. S., & Newman-Toker, D. E. (2014). Quantifying the Vestibulo-Ocular Reflex with Video-Oculography: Nature and Frequency of Artifacts. Audiology and Neurotology, 20(1), 39–50. https://doi.org/10.1159/000362780

Link
https://karger.com/aud/article-abstract/20/1/39/44042/Quantifying-the-Vestibulo-Ocular-Reflex-with-Video?redirectedFrom=fulltext

Description
This article provides a detailed insight into artifacts which are encountered during VHIT testing (basic level)

Keywords
video head impulse test, head impulse test, catch-up saccade, overt saccade, covert saccade, horizontal canal, lateral canal, video head impulse test, vhit, hit, gain, video goggles, synapsis, interacoustics, otometrics, head thrust, VOR gain, artifacts

Reviewer
Raymond van de Berg

Topics

Open Access: Yes


Curthoys, I. S., McGarvie, L. A., MacDougall, H. G., Burgess, A. M., Halmagyi, G. M., Rey-Martinez, J., & Dlugaiczyk, J. (2023). A review of the geometrical basis and the principles underlying the use and interpretation of the video head impulse test (vHIT) in clinical vestibular testing. Frontiers in Neurology, 14. https://doi.org/10.3389/fneur.2023.1147253

Link
https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/neurology/articles/10.3389/fneur.2023.1147253/full

Description
This article provides a detailed insight into the principles of VHIT, and it provides tips and tricks for testing (expert level)

Keywords
video head impulse test, head impulse test, catch-up saccade, overt saccade, covert saccade, horizontal canal, lateral canal, video head impulse test, vhit, hit, gain, video goggles, synapsis, interacoustics, otometrics, head thrust, VOR gain

Reviewer
Raymond van de Berg

Topics
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Open Access: Yes


Mantokoudis, G., Tehrani, A. S. S., Kattah, J. C., Eibenberger, K., Guede, C. I., Zee, D. S., & Newman-Toker, D. E. (2014). Quantifying the Vestibulo-Ocular Reflex with Video-Oculography: Nature and Frequency of Artifacts. Audiology and Neurotology, 20(1), 39–50. https://doi.org/10.1159/000362780

Link
https://karger.com/aud/article-abstract/20/1/39/44042/Quantifying-the-Vestibulo-Ocular-Reflex-with-Video?redirectedFrom=fulltext

Description
This article provides a detailed insight into artifacts which are encountered during VHIT testing (basic level)

Keywords
video head impulse test, head impulse test, catch-up saccade, overt saccade, covert saccade, horizontal canal, lateral canal, video head impulse test, vhit, hit, gain, video goggles, synapsis, interacoustics, otometrics, head thrust, VOR gain, artifacts

Reviewer
Raymond van de Berg

Topics

Open Access: Yes


Curthoys, I. S., McGarvie, L. A., MacDougall, H. G., Burgess, A. M., Halmagyi, G. M., Rey-Martinez, J., & Dlugaiczyk, J. (2023). A review of the geometrical basis and the principles underlying the use and interpretation of the video head impulse test (vHIT) in clinical vestibular testing. Frontiers in Neurology, 14. https://doi.org/10.3389/fneur.2023.1147253

Link
https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/neurology/articles/10.3389/fneur.2023.1147253/full

Description
This article provides a detailed insight into the principles of VHIT, and it provides tips and tricks for testing (expert level)

Keywords
video head impulse test, head impulse test, catch-up saccade, overt saccade, covert saccade, horizontal canal, lateral canal, video head impulse test, vhit, hit, gain, video goggles, synapsis, interacoustics, otometrics, head thrust, VOR gain

Reviewer
Raymond van de Berg

Topics
-  -  Audiology
-  -  -  Pure Tone Audiometry
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-  -  -  Speech Audiometry (incl. Roll-over effect, word recognition score)
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-  -  -  Tympanogram
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-  -  -  Auditory evoked potentials
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-  -  -  Otoacoustic emissions (incl. auditory neuropathy)
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-  -  VEMPS
-  -  -  cVEMP
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-  -  -  oVEMP
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-  -  Imaging
-  -  -  Thin Section CT scan of the temporal bone in three dimensions/canal planes
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-  -  -  MRI (parenchyma, vascular, demyelination, pontocerebellar angle)
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-  -  -  Vascular Imaging (intracranial and extracranial)
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-  -  Methods, not so widely available, only on special indication (diagnosis and/or research)
-  -  -  Subjective Visual Vertical
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-  -  -  Fundus photography for ocular torsion
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Open Access: Yes


Starkov D, Snelders M, Lucieer F, Janssen AML, Pleshkov M, Kingma H, van Rompaey V, Herssens N, Hallemans A, Vereeck L, McCrum C, Meijer K, Guinand N, Perez-Fornos A, van de Berg R. Bilateral vestibulopathy and age: experimental considerations for testing dynamic visual acuity on a treadmill. J Neurol. 2020 Dec;267(Suppl 1):265-272. doi: 10.1007/s00415-020-10249-z. Epub 2020 Oct 28. PMID: 33113022; PMCID: PMC7718189.

Link
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00415-020-10249-z

Description
instrumented DVA

Keywords
head impulse test, catch-up saccade, overt saccade, covert saccade, horizontal canal, lateral canal, video head impulse test, vhit, hit, head thrust, bedside

Topics
-  -  -  Functional head impulse test
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-  -  -  Scleral coil technique
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-  -  -  Posturography (as a measure of postural performance)
-  -  -  -  Static posturography
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-  -  -  -  Dynamic posturography
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-  -  -  Hydrops imaging
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-  -  -  Functional imaging
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-  -  -  Artificial intelligence and imaging
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-  -  -  eCoch
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-  -  Pediatric aspects of ancillary tests
-  -  -  Off-center rotation and off-axis rotation
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-  -  -  Age-related adaptation of ancillary testing
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-  -  -  Chair for positional testing
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-  -  -  Tilt test
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